Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-01-20
AT THE CAPITOL TO-DAY.
THE ELECTORAL COUNT BILL.
The Report Agreed to in the Senate
PACIFIC RAILROAD DEBTS.
The House Asks for information.
The Senate.

The Senate.
A PENSION BILL We TOED.
The presiding officer presenteda message from
tne President vetoing bill granting pension to
| WIN. Dickens. The ground of the veto Is that a
pension had been already, in December, 1886,
given TO the beneficiary through the Pension
Office. Referred.
MT Jones, OF Arkansas, from the committee on
lndian affairs, reported two Senate bills granting
r1gn6 OF way to the Spokane and Pelouse, and the
Washington and Idaho railroad companies
Calendar.
Mr.. Conger, from the committee on commerce
IepoIIeu pack without amendment, the House bill
10 amend section of the act of June TO- $780, in
reference 10 the Immediate transportation duti-
aDie gooos, and asked for its immediate consider
MI Hoar said he had presented to the chairman
OF @ the committee an amendment suggested to him
Dy an eminent business man OF BOsJOn which
amendment, he understood had received the ap-
proval OF the Secretary OF the Treasury but which
Inc chairman % OF OF the committee had forgotten to
Drlng DelOre the committee. He asked, therefore,
| was adopted.
signed by merchants and manufacturers Of st.
Louis for the repeal of internal revenue laws Re-
THE MONUMENT TO MARY WASHINGTON.
Mr. Malone, from the committee on public
buildings reported bill for the completion OF the
Calendar.
Mr. Spooner, from the District committee. re-
ported bill to quiet the title to certain lands in
the city OF Washington. Calendar
THE ARTHUR KILL BRIDGE.
Mr. NcPherSon introduced a bill to amend the
act OF last session authorizing the construction Of
railroad bridge across the Arthur Kill MIR.
Mcpherson explained that a commission of army
engineers decided against the bridge authorized
on the ground that 1t would be an OBSTRUCTION 70
navigation His bill proposed to authorize the
engineers in the plan.
Referred to the commerce committee.
WOMAN SUFFRAGE
MI. Blair gave notice that on Tuesday next he
would ask the Senate to take up and act upon the
joint resolution proposing an amendment to the
constitution SO as to authorize woman suffrage.
THE ELECTORAL COUNT BILL
Mr.. Hoar called up the conference report on the
electoral count bill.
Mr. Edmunds stated his understanding to be
that the conference bill was, in substance and in
form, except as to two or three lnes the same as
the Dill which the Senate had passed over and over
again.
Mr.. Wilson Qowa) said that he could not vote for
tne report, because he believed that it proposed to
assume jurisdiction which, IN his Judgment, was
prohibited by the Constitution.
Inc conference report was agreed to without
Iprther discussion and without a division; and
1
O'CLOCK, went into secret session.
Nominations To-Day.
The President sent the following nominations to
the Senate to-day:
Oney Carstarphen, Of Colorado, to be surveyor
general OF Colorado.
Albian s. Keith, of Massachusetts, to be an en-
the naval cadet who became disabled while at sea
In service, and in whose behalf bill was recently
passed authorizing his appointment on the retired
ISL he Is at present residing in this city.
House Of Representatives.
PACIFIC RAILROADS INDEBTEDNESS.
Mr.. Cultivate, OF Ohio, from the committee on
Pacific railroads reported back the following reso-
luton which was adopted:
Resosrei That the Secretary Of the Treafury
br, and is hereby requested to inform the House
OF Representatives as soon as practicable, the
sums OF money which were owing to the United
States on the 1st day of January. 1887, from the
pacfnc railroads which have received aid from the
due principal and interest under existing law,
orally and collectively, from said companies and
what Will be the result to the Treasury and the
effect upon these debts If House bill, No. 1913,
should become law and its provisions be COM
piled with.
lThe BIN referred to is that introduced by Mr..
OuthWalte providing for the payment OF the
Pacific railroad Indebtedness to the government
by installments so arranged that the average
date OF maturity shall be October l. 1921
The object of the committee in reporting the
resolution Is to get the opinion OF the Treasury
department as to the effect of the passage of the
House funding bill. In its report the committee
says: 'eThere Is legislation pending to secure TO
the United States the payment OF all the indebt-
ednesS OF the companies alluded to in the resOlu-
ZION. NO information can be obtained from any
reports made by the department as to the amounts
owing the government for the companies
and almost necessary that the House be informed
as 70 tne true state OF their accounts brought down
TO as Ia late day as may be had in order that there
may be fa1r and intelligent consideration of such
measure. The Judgment OF the Secretary OF the
Treasury as to the effect and result OF the provts
ions OF the bill should it become a law Is also
greatly to be desired, SO that the House may have
ure."
COMMITTEE REPORTS.
The following committee reports were submit
ted and referred:
By ME- HIN (Ohio), from the committee on terri
Cor1es-Ine Senate bill for the admission OF the
By Mr. Cox ~ C rrnw mouSe 5be eaiemaar eaaa;,t On ,o
elgn ahanSCFor the suppression OF the opium
by M. ONe1ll Pa-), from the committee on lib
rary-For the completion OF the monument to
Mary, the mother OF Washington, at Fredertcks-
burg. Committee of the whole,
By MI. Winans CN1ch.>, from the committee on
agriculture authorizing the commissioner of agri-
culture to make special distribution of seed in
@ ne ~ tHg sections of Texas Commit
In the morning hour MI. Martin (Ala.), on be-
nal nail OF tne committee on patents called up Senate
bill amending the law relating to patents trade
MARKS and copyrights
THE PATENT BILL PASSED.
The bill, which was passed, provides that here.
after, during the term OF letters patent for de-
sign, 1t shall be unlawful for any person other
than the owner OF the letters patent without the
Incense OF the owner, to apply the design secured
Dy sucn letters patent, or any colorado Imitation
tnereO TO any article OF manufacture for the pur-
pose o. sae or to sell or expose for sale any article
OF manufacture to which such design or colorado
imitation shall, without the license OF the owner
having been applied, knowing that the same has
been so applied.
PENSIONS.
MI. Conger Ohio, on behalf Of the committee
on invalid pensions, called up the bill Increasing
TO $50 month the rate OF pension for total deaf
ness
THE ISTER-STATE COMMERCE Bill.
AT = O'Clock the House resumed consideration OF
the conference report on the Interstate commerce
DILL and an understanding was arrived at whereby
session was ordered for tonight for the discus
SION OF the report. at the close OF which session.
the previous question shall be considered as or.
uere0, ana the vote on the adoption OF the report
journal
bill. rf ~ '--o 'SS
District i'm Congress.
A TITLE Bill.
In the Senate to-day Mr.. Sherman, from the Dts
trict committee, reported favorably the bill ar-
thorztng the Secretary OF the Treasury to release
10 the heirs and assigns OF James 6. Magee, de-
ceased all right, title and interest OF the govern
ment IN lot 1A In square 68l, city OF washington.